Memorable Moments: Marking the Club's 15th Anniversary

With few days left in the year, we here at Chicago-Fire.com thought it appropriate to take a look back on 10 of the Most Memorable of what turned out to be a very successful year.

As it would be difficult to rank all the instances that pulled together a fantastic 15th year, we'll be listing them chronologically over the next two weeks. Some are club-wide and as the Team Writer, others are of a more personal nature but rest assured that all were special.

On Wednesday, I remembered the weekend events that led to the Fire’s return to the MLS Cup playoffs. Today, I look forward to the next day, when fans threw a star-studded 15th Anniversary Party for the club.

The team officially clinching their return to the MLS Cup playoffs for the first time since 2009 the day before made the club’s 15th anniversary the next day, October 8, 2012, all the more special.

Already in celebration mode, if you Like the Fire on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter, you were met with this image (the brainchild of Hot Time in Old Town founder Tweed Thornton) early that morning

The series allowed anticipation for the fan-driven event to grow and that night at the Chicago History Museum, 11 of the 15 players named in the #Fire15 were in attendance along with nearly all of the current Fire team.

In all, red-clan patrons had a hard time not bumping into the likes of Piotr Nowak, Lubos Kubik, Ante Razov and the many, many more Fire alumni that took time out to commemorate a club that had given them so much. In total, the alumni attendees combined for 3,569 competitive matches and 64 championships won in Chicago.